LGA → CLT Flight Reliability

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Route reliability

July 2023 – July 2026

Route Reliability Score

54/ 100Fair

Better than 22% of comparable major US routes (4,598 compared)

Calculated from 15,860 flights. How this is calculated

On-time arrivals

80.2%

12,308 of 15,348

Cancellation rate

3.06%

486 cancelled

Median arrival delay

-11 min

Average 6.6 min

Severe delays

8.7%

60+ minutes late

Delay when late

93 min

Average, when 15+ min late

Flights analyzed

15,860

5 carriers

LGA → CLT arrives on time 80.2% of the time; the return trip, CLT → LGA, arrives on time 72.1% of the time, an 8.1-point gap between the two directions of the same city pair.

LGA → CLT spends 34.3 minutes on the ground on a 544-mile trip: 23.1 minutes from pushback to wheels-up at LGA and 11.2 minutes from touchdown to gate at CLT.

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics · Data covering July 2023 – July 2026

What stands out

The airline matters unusually much on this route, a wider carrier-to-carrier gap than 96% of 2,692 comparable routes.

Endeavor Air arrived on time 86.3% of the time, against 64.9% for Frontier Airlines, flying the exact same route.

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · Ranked against every other route with the same kind of figure and at least 2,692 in the comparison.

Why LGA → CLT flights are cancelled

July 2023 – July 2026

LGA → CLT cancelled 486 of 15,860 scheduled flights — about 1 in every 33. The reason filed most often was extreme weather, 63.0% of the cancellations coded on this route — about 1 in every 52 scheduled flights.

Share of cancellations

Weather63.0%

Air traffic19.1%

Airline17.9%

Security0.0%

Of 486 cancelled departures carrying a reason code.

What each reason means

Extreme weather1 in 52

Conditions the carrier judged severe enough to stop the flight: a blizzard, a hurricane, a line of thunderstorms.

306 cancellations, 63.0% of the total.

The air traffic system1 in 171

Airport capacity, air traffic control flow programs, heavy traffic and ordinary bad weather. A system decision, not the airline’s.

93 cancellations, 19.1% of the total.

The airline1 in 182

Crew, maintenance, aircraft cleaning, baggage or fueling: what BTS counts as within the carrier’s own control.

87 cancellations, 17.9% of the total.

Security—

A terminal evacuation, a security breach, screening equipment failure, or screening queues over 29 minutes.

0 cancellations, 0.0% of the total.

Reason codes are the operating airline’s own filing with US DOT, not an independent finding of fault. Ordinary bad weather is filed under air traffic, so weather’s full share is larger than its bar.

486 coded cancellations were recorded on LGA → CLT; the section appears from 50.

When it goes wrong

July 2023 – July 2026

One arrival in ten is worse than

50 min late

against a median of 11 min early

Arrived an hour or more late8.7%

Typical delay when late93 min

Cancelled3.06%

Landed somewhere else0.16%

LGA → CLT has an average that understates its risk: a typical arrival is 11 min early, but the worst tenth are 61 minutes worse than that. If the trip has something unmissable at the end of it, the median is the wrong number to plan against.

Percentiles over 15,860 operations; cancelled and diverted flights are counted separately.

Will your connection be tight enough?

Layovers at CLT after arriving from LGA.

Connection buffer and chance of missing by layover length, LGA → CLT arrivals
Connection time	Chance of missing	Reads as
30 min	31%	Likely to miss
45 min	19%	High risk
60 min	14%	Some risk
90 min	8.6%	Some risk
120 min	5.7%	Some risk

This is one leg of a connection. Gate changes and the next flight's own schedule matter too. And a connection can fail before delay is even the question — this route cancels 3.06% of the time and diverts 0.16% of the time, which a late arrival never shows up in.

Chance of missing is the share of 15,348 arrivals on this route that landed later than the connection time less 30 minutes to reach the next gate.

The worst tenth of arrivals on this route land at least 50 minutes late (90th-percentile gate arrival delay), over 15,860 operations.

Any other layover length: connection checker.

Best time to fly

LGA → CLT flights departing 5–9 AM arrived on time 90.3% of the time, against 67.2% for 9 PM–5 AM departures, a gap of 23.1 percentage points.

By day and hour

On-time arrival rate for each weekday and scheduled departure hour, in local time at the departure airport (LGA).

Hour of departure matters more than day of the week: hourly averages sit a typical 8.9 points from the route-wide rate, weekday averages 2.3 points.

On-time arrival rate for LGA to CLT by weekday and scheduled departure hour, local time. Each button reads out one slot.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6 AM–7 AM
7 AM–8 AM
8 AM–9 AM
9 AM–10 AM
10 AM–11 AM
11 AM–12 PM
12 PM–1 PM
1 PM–2 PM
2 PM–3 PM
3 PM–4 PM
4 PM–5 PM
5 PM–6 PM
6 PM–7 PM
7 PM–8 PM

On-time rate, % · stronger color, fewer on time

50–59
60–69
70–79
80–89
90–99

Fewer than 120 flights, not scored

Source: FlyerIntel analysis of US DOT BTS data · July 2023 – July 2026 · On time is arrival within 15 minutes of schedule. Cells round to whole percentages; the table shows one decimal.

No slot is named best or worst: too few reach 500 flights. Departures before 6 AM and after 8 PM (521 flights) are not drawn: no slot in those hours has enough flights to score.

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On-time arrival rate (%) with flights beneath, by scheduled departure hour and weekday for LGA to CLT. A dash means fewer than 120 flights, which are not scored.
Hour	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
6 AM–7 AM	92.6% on time355 flights	92.3% on time355 flights	92.8% on time355 flights	91.8% on time350 flights	94.2% on time351 flights	92.2% on time212 flights	90.6% on time263 flights
7 AM–8 AM	89.3% on time139 flights	89.0% on time138 flights	89.3% on time142 flights	89.1% on time139 flights	84.3% on time142 flights	86.0% on time163 flights	82.5% on time141 flights
8 AM–9 AM	91.4% on time227 flights	89.6% on time223 flights	90.0% on time223 flights	88.3% on time225 flights	85.7% on time223 flights	89.1% on time181 flights	90.6% on time183 flights
9 AM–10 AM	96 flights, too few to score	103 flights, too few to score	101 flights, too few to score	101 flights, too few to score	99 flights, too few to score	70 flights, too few to score	89 flights, too few to score
10 AM–11 AM	86.9% on time207 flights	88.8% on time198 flights	84.8% on time201 flights	86.9% on time199 flights	87.8% on time201 flights	74 flights, too few to score	83.7% on time202 flights
11 AM–12 PM	77.1% on time141 flights	81.6% on time142 flights	85.6% on time140 flights	84.3% on time135 flights	85.1% on time140 flights	111 flights, too few to score	82.0% on time140 flights
12 PM–1 PM	119 flights, too few to score	81.0% on time128 flights	118 flights, too few to score	78.0% on time134 flights	119 flights, too few to score	76.5% on time124 flights	71.6% on time120 flights
1 PM–2 PM	77.8% on time257 flights	82.3% on time256 flights	86.2% on time256 flights	80.6% on time251 flights	79.8% on time253 flights	89.0% on time147 flights	72.6% on time265 flights
2 PM–3 PM	111 flights, too few to score	112 flights, too few to score	110 flights, too few to score	110 flights, too few to score	114 flights, too few to score	101 flights, too few to score	104 flights, too few to score
3 PM–4 PM	84 flights, too few to score	85 flights, too few to score	81 flights, too few to score	80 flights, too few to score	82 flights, too few to score	52 flights, too few to score	87 flights, too few to score
4 PM–5 PM	76 flights, too few to score	80 flights, too few to score	78 flights, too few to score	79 flights, too few to score	74 flights, too few to score	73 flights, too few to score	83 flights, too few to score
5 PM–6 PM	69.4% on time175 flights	76.5% on time175 flights	72.9% on time173 flights	68.7% on time169 flights	61.6% on time178 flights	78.2% on time187 flights	65.0% on time172 flights
6 PM–7 PM	85 flights, too few to score	91 flights, too few to score	89 flights, too few to score	85 flights, too few to score	86 flights, too few to score	62 flights, too few to score	85 flights, too few to score
7 PM–8 PM	62.1% on time240 flights	71.5% on time231 flights	70.2% on time234 flights	59.8% on time233 flights	67.1% on time236 flights	92 flights, too few to score	58.3% on time238 flights

By departure window

5–9 AM90.3%

9 AM–12 PM84.3%

12–3 PM76.4%

3–6 PM72.3%

6–9 PM67.7%

9 PM–5 AM67.2%

By departure hour

12 AM

3 AM

6 AM

9 AM

12 PM

3 PM

6 PM

9 PM

Why LGA → CLT runs late

July 2023 – July 2026

Late-arriving aircraft47.1%

the inbound aircraft was late, so this flight started late

The airline28.8%

crew, maintenance, boarding and fueling, all within the carrier’s control

Air traffic control19.4%

airspace and airport capacity, including weather-driven flow control

Weather4.4%

weather severe enough to stop this flight specifically

Security0.3%

screening or terminal security incidents

Share of the delay minutes US DOT attributed to each cause for LGA → CLT. Only delays of 15 minutes or more are attributed.

Late-arriving aircraft is the largest cause on LGA → CLT, at 47.1%: flights here mostly leave late because the plane came in late, and the day shows it: 5–9 AM departures arrived on time 90.3% of the time and 9 PM–5 AM departures 67.2%.

How this route holds up in bad weather

July 2023 – July 2026

Bad weather raises cancellations by a similar amount at both ends of LGA to CLT: 4.1 times the normal rate at LGA and 4.6 times at CLT. Cancelled in bad weather against normal hours: LGA 9.0% against 2.2%, CLT 5.7% against 1.2%. Flights that did leave LGA in bad weather arrived on time 63.6% of the time, against 80.9% in normal hours.

Bad weather and normal hours at the airports

Scheduled departures, July 2023 – July 2026

Departures from LGA and CLT in hours of bad weather and in normal hours
Departures from	LGA	CLT
Cancelled in bad weather	9.0%	5.7%
Cancelled in normal hours	2.2%	1.2%
Arrived on time, bad weather	63.6%	63.5%
Arrived on time, normal hours	80.9%	75.9%
Departures in bad weather	56,339	55,311

Of the carriers on this route, American Airlines (7.6% cancelled against 9.3% for the other carriers at LGA) cancelled the fewest departures from LGA in bad weather and Republic Airways (12.4% cancelled against 8.3% for the other carriers at LGA) the most.

This route’s airlines in bad weather at LGA

All departures from LGA

Cancellation rates in bad weather at LGA for the airlines that fly LGA to CLT, against the other carriers at LGA in the same months
Airline	Bad-weather departures	Cancelled	Other carriers
American Airlines	6,685	7.6%below the others	9.3%
Spirit Airlines	2,577	8.9%about level	8.4%
Frontier Airlines	864	10.6%above the others	8.7%
Endeavor Air	5,488	8.7%above the others	6.0%
Republic Airways	18,154	12.4%above the others	8.3%

These are airport figures, not route figures: every scheduled departure from LGA and CLT, to any destination, in hours the weather report called bad. The airline rows count each carrier’s departures from LGA on every route.

Weather source and limits. In full: LGA (airlines), CLT, What Weather Costs Each Airport, Who Cancels More When the Weather Turns, Airports That Change Places When Weather Turns.

Airlines on this route

Carriers with at least 200 flights, by the airline that operated each one.

Airlines on this route
Carrier	Flights	On time	Cancelled	Median delay	Severe
American Airlines	9,386	79.7%	2.76%	-11 min	9.2%
Endeavor Air	2,190	86.3%	4.06%	-16 min	5.8%
Republic Airways	2,010	83.0%	3.23%	-12 min	6.1%
Spirit Airlines	1,562	78.4%	3.14%	-10 min	10.1%
Frontier Airlines	712	64.9%	3.37%	1 min	15.2%

American Airlines flew 59.2% of the 15,860 flights listed. Endeavor Air cancelled 4.06% of its flights here against 2.76% for American Airlines.

Endeavor Air arrived on time 21.4 percentage points more often than Frontier Airlines on this route.

Other ways to fly New York to Charlotte

Airport pairs in the same two city markets, as the DOT defines them.

Other ways to fly New York to Charlotte
Route	Flights	On time	Cancelled	Median delay	Score
LGA→CLT this route New York to Charlotte	15,860	80.2%	3.06%	-11 min	54
EWR→CLT Newark to Charlotte	11,646	78.5%	3.06%	-10 min	51

Flying to CLT from the New York area? Compare LGA, EWR, JFK for CLT, with the same test for what counts as a real difference.

Flights on this route

Flight numbers with at least 600 operations here and still on the schedule.

Flights on this route
Flight	Scheduled	Operations	On time
F93133 Frontier Airlines	12:29 PM	661	63.6%

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

Mon78.4%

Tue82.9%

Wed82.6%

Thu79.3%

Fri79.2%

Sat82.9%

Sun76.5%

Tuesday is historically the most reliable day and Sunday the least, a gap of 6.4 percentage points.

By month

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

July is historically the weakest month and September the strongest, a spread of 16.2 percentage points.

Reliability over time

July 2023 – July 2026

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25

26

Over the most recent 12 months (2025-08 to 2026-07), on-time arrivals averaged 76.8% against 80.9% in the 12 months before — declining by 4.1 percentage points.

Data and methodology

Calculated by FlyerIntel from 15,860 LGA → CLT flight records from the US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, covering July 2023 – July 2026. Late means 15 or more minutes past scheduled arrival; cancelled and diverted flights are left out of on-time rates.

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Analysis last recomputed September 26, 2026

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LGA→CLT

Right now

Route reliability

What stands out

Why LGA → CLT flights are cancelled

Share of cancellations

What each reason means

When it goes wrong

Will your connection be tight enough?

Best time to fly

By day and hour

By departure window

By departure hour

Why LGA → CLT runs late

How this route holds up in bad weather

Bad weather and normal hours at the airports

This route’s airlines in bad weather at LGA

Airlines on this route

Other ways to fly New York to Charlotte

Flights on this route

Weekly and seasonal patterns

By day of week

By month

Reliability over time

Data and methodology